Casey ケーシー Abel エーブル’s Post

Many seeds for growth in the startup ecosystem have been firmly planted in Japan, now it is up to everyone involved to nurture those seeds for growth. In my view, there are a few key elements that will further help propel the ecosystem forward including: 1. Stronger ties with global ecosystems, capital and talent in order to import shared learnings and accelerate development of new startups. Tokyo’s startup ecosystem continues to feel needlessly isolated from global ecosystems despite recent efforts to change this, and in addition communities within Japan are often highly isolated from one another with minimal crossover between more domestic and more foreign oriented communities. 2. Tax incentives for large enterprises to buy from companies less than 3-5 years old. Unfortunately the government to GTM playbook for a lot of B2B startups to date has forced them to focus on servicing the needs of other startups and SMEa before “graduating” to enterprise deals, however, unfortunately the core customer needs at the enterprise level are often fundamentally different from startups and SMEs, causing major barriers for startups to go up market deeper into their development. 3. Experienced professionals willing to take the risk to launch a new biz. We simply don’t have enough, yet.

人材不足という問題は簡単に消えません。 これから外国人の採用が増えると、「採用力」という言葉が「営業力」と同じように使うようになるかと思います。 グロバル基準に合わせた採用力を持っている日経企業がまだ数少なくて、必要とされている人材を取れない悪夢が続いています。 間もない将来に日経企業の経営層が「事業の競争力=採用力」に近い考え方をグローバル企業みたいになっていくかと思います。 日経企業が変わって行くか、競争力を劣化するかという白黒の選択がドンドンやって来ています。 #japan #hiring #人的資本経営

Sayonara to 1H 2024! ZooKeep continues to go from strength to strength in our mission to modernize and digitalize talent teams in Japan and beyond! We’ve added a number of enterprise clients, secured our first non Japan platform clients, launched a new partnership with Kinetik Hiring in Malaysia, and also officially launched our initial GTM in Japan for our AI sourcing platform to help companies in Japan strengthen their direct sourcing capabilities. Extremely bullish on what lies ahead for this amazing team! #zookeep #talent #japan

Pivotさんに又お世話になって、あの有名なピンク 部屋で竹下さんと話してきました！ 7月の中旬に「日本で働くメリット」について新しい番組がでます！ #japan #opportunity

Pre Series A you’ll take any exposure you can get! #zookeep #branding #goingviral

ZooKeep is looking to add number of key roles in our go to market team in Japan and potentially Malaysia, as well as our client services team in Japan. If you have a background in recruiting, human capital markets, early stage B2B software business or management consulting and are keen to help build a global startup with Japanese roots, please reach out. We will be posting a number of roles in the coming weeks, but don’t hesitate to contact us beforehand! Amazing tailwinds in our markets with a real opportunity to build something special here. #hiring #growth #talent #japan

Is it only me? I truly despise the fact that LinkedIn is funneling me to look at other people’s jobs when clicking my network. Not a great UX….